The Collector's Trove Presents: The Jim & Laura Roslof Collection! Another remarkable auction from The Collector's Trove, an online auction house featuring the collections of role-playing game industry designers and artists, including past employee's of TSR, creators of Dungeons & Dragons and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. This is part of an ongoing series of auctions which have included the collections of Gary Gygax, Dave Arneson, Dave Sutherland III, Darlene, Steve Marsh, Tim Jiardini, Rob Kuntz, Len Lakofka, Ernie Gygax, Eric Shook, Kevin Hendryx, Bill Hoyer, Mike Mornard, David "Zeb" Cook, Dave Megarry, and now Dennis Sustare! If you want to be kept aware of auction news and get a chance to own a piece of gaming history check out The Collector's Trove !

CONDITION: The condition of the item(s) is GOOD+ to GOOD- as far as general wear (see NOTES ON CONDITION below). The artwork has slight waviness and warping all along the margins due to the inking in of the dark area. There is layout tape, or tape residue on all four corners, and an additional bit of tape residue in the lower right margin. The Vintage File Photocopy has been roughly torn from the rest of the sheet.

Understand that many of the items in this collection are working pieces of art and have smudges, notes, doodles, brush and pen strokes to thin paint brushes or clear rapidographs, and the occasional carry over of other projects such as bleed through and even unrelated study sketches. These are not considered flaws but part of the piece and are not always mentioned under condition. This is the way it was done by the artist and it preserves their working environment and technique.

The Collector's Trove has been authorized to auction this and hundreds of other items from the collection of Jim and Laura Roslof. These items were acquired during the last 30 years of Jim's amateur and professional involvement with wargames, roleplaying games, strategy games, and board games, many years of that time spent as an employee of TSR, the company that founded the roleplaying game industry. Laura's items were accumulated over the several years she worked at TSR in the Dungeon! Hobby Shop, the Pre-Press Department, and doing the occasional painting or illustration assignment.

Each Numbered lot comes with its own unique Certificate of Authenticity signed by Laura Roslof.

Laura, during her tenure, did the illustrating, photographing, keylining, and designing on many of the Dungeon! Hobby Shop catalogs, promotional materials, and advertisements. She also did keylining and illustration for Endless Quest Books, D&D adventure modules, Gen Con programs and advertisements, RPGA promotional materials and Polyhedron magazine, and the company newsletter, Random Events. She also coordinated printing of these items and customer mailing lists. She was so successful with catalogs, reaching out to military organizations, service member periodicals, and military base exchanges that she turned the operation from a money-losing endeavor into a profitable one. As a result, the company's chief executive, Brian Blume, promptly fired her. He explained that the catalog operation was supposed to be a money-losing department for the tax write-off! He then reassigned her to the Pre-Press Department where they did want to be profitable.

In addition to her excellence in these areas of the company she also produced illustrations...... read more